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Original Source The U.S. Department of Education has announced draft requirements for $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement grants targeting the nation's lowest-performing schools. The Obama administration's strategy for turning around low-performing schools includes identifying the lowest-achieving Title I schools in each state; supporting…

Original Source Health Care for America Now and the Center for Community Change are Atlantic grantees. In the last few weeks, a variety of groups have been more forthright in expressing criticisms of the Obama administration now that it is more than half a year…

Original Source by SHAUN TANDON | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a broad alliance with South Africa on Saturday as she basked in a warm welcome from President Jacob Zuma. An upbeat Clinton shook her hips to the…

Original Source Mary Robinson is the founder and president of Realizing Rights, an Atlantic grantee. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has been awarded the highest civilian honour in the United States - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Announcing the award at the White House…

Original Source The Bridgespan Group and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees. By John RiceSpecial to CNN Editor's note: John Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based national nonprofit organization seeking to develop "the next generation of African…

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING DAY, 2009 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Like an athlete out of practice, a child who takes long breaks from learning…

Original Source President Obama will meet today with social innovators, including a half-dozen winners of The Purpose Prize who have pioneered solutions to rural poverty, infant mortality and women’s health problems in their encore careers. The president is expected to challenge philanthropists to expand innovative programs making…

Today in an event in the East Room of the White House, President Obama highlighted innovative non-profit programmes that are making a difference in communities across the country. Programmes such asHarlem Children’s Zone (an Atlantic grantee), Teach for America (an Atlantic grantee), HopeLab, Genesys Works, and Bonnie CLAC (an Atlantic…

Harlem Children’s Zone and Teach for America are Atlantic grantees, and Bonnie CLAC is an Atlantic grantee via the Purpose Prize. by Foon Rhee President Obama this afternoon praised a New Hampshire nonprofit that helps poor people buy fuel-efficient reliable cars in a White House event designed to highlight innovative programs…

The Obama administration is reviving efforts to have the United States sign onto a global children's rights treaty ratified by every U.N. member except the U.S. and Somalia, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Monday. Administration officials are actively discussing "when…